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High-resolution regional emission inventory contributes to the evaluation of policy effectiveness: a case study in Jiangsu Province, China
Chen Gu
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse and
School of the Environment, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Rd., Nanjing,
Jiangsu 210023, China
Lei Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse and
School of the Environment, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Rd., Nanjing,
Jiangsu 210023, China
Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and
Equipment Technology, CICAEET, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210044, China
Zidie Xu
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse and
School of the Environment, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Rd., Nanjing,
Jiangsu 210023, China
Sijia Xia
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Environmental Engineering, Jiangsu
Provincial Academy of Environmental Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210036, China
Yutong Wang
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse and
School of the Environment, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Rd., Nanjing,
Jiangsu 210023, China
Li Li
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Environmental Engineering, Jiangsu
Provincial Academy of Environmental Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210036, China
Zeren Wang
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse and
School of the Environment, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Rd., Nanjing,
Jiangsu 210023, China
Qiuyue Zhao
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Environmental Engineering, Jiangsu
Provincial Academy of Environmental Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210036, China
Hanying Wang
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse and
School of the Environment, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Rd., Nanjing,
Jiangsu 210023, China
Yu Zhao
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse and
School of the Environment, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Rd., Nanjing,
Jiangsu 210023, China
Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and
Equipment Technology, CICAEET, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210044, China
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We demonstrated the development of a high-resolution emission inventory and its application to evaluate the effectiveness of emission control actions, by incorporating the improved methodology, the best available data, and air quality modeling. We show that substantial efforts for emission controls indeed played an important role in air quality improvement even with worsened meteorological conditions and that the contributions of individual measures to emission reduction were greatly changing.
We demonstrated the development of a high-resolution emission inventory and its application to...
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